Yan Lianke
Hard Like Water
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A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution In revolutionary struggle, if you don't defeat your enemy, your enemy will defeat you... On his return to his hometown - and his wife - to aid the Cultural Revolution, soldier Aijun sees a young woman wandering barefoot along the railway tracks in the warm late-afternoon sun. Her name is Hongmei. From this moment on, an 'unspeakably beautiful flower' blooms in Aijun's heart. As Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town's revolutionary struggle, they become inseparable. They spend their days and nights stamp…
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A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution In revolutionary struggle, if you don't defeat your enemy, your enemy will defeat you... On his return to his hometown - and his wife - to aid the Cultural Revolution, soldier Aijun sees a young woman wandering barefoot along the railway tracks in the warm late-afternoon sun. Her name is Hongmei. From this moment on, an 'unspeakably beautiful flower' blooms in Aijun's heart. As Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town's revolutionary struggle, they become inseparable. They spend their days and nights stamping out feudalism, writing pamphlets and attending rallies: they are the engines of history. But soon, their sexual and revolutionary fervour begin to merge, and a crazed new love explodes between them. The party bosses are hugely impressed by the ardour of the pair's work. Emboldened, the couple build a 'tunnel of love' - to further the revolution, of course, but also to connect their homes and create a 'nuptial chamber' for their secret rendezvous. But when Hongmei's husband finds them there one evening, and the young couple are arrested for framing a comrade in their upward political ascent, their dreams of a life together begin to fall apart. Hard Like Water is a novel of rare emotional force from one of China's greatest contemporary writers. This is a universal human drama about the nature of political power and the danger of hubris, as well as the freewheeling momentum of love and sexual desire.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78474-290-4
- EAN: 9781784742904
- Produktnummer: 34348403
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm
Über den Autor
Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina Étranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.
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